Lee Wells is an artist, exhibition organizer and consultant currently living and working New York. His artwork primarily questions systems of power and control and has been exhibited internationally including the 51 st La Biennale Di Venezia, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinatti and the Museo d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. He is a co-founder and director of IFAC-arts, http://www.ifac-arts.org, an alternative exhibition and installation program for artists and curators.His artwork, projects and exhibitions have been written about by various national and international art and news publications to include: The New York Times, Art Newspaper, The Washington Post, Art in America, and Art Net.

Wells is currently a curator at large and Cinema-Scope director for Scope Art Fairs http://www.scope-art.com. In January 2006, he co-founded the video art community research portal and traveling installation [PAM] http://PerpetualArtMachine.com, with the artists Raphaele Shirley, Chris Borkowski and Aaron Miller.Wells has been participating on the Rhizome since 1998.

The John Cage Trust is moving to Bard College. "The Trust, which oversees Cage's works and performances, is to be called the John Cage Trust at Bard College effective as of its move in the spring. Previously, the Cage Trust had been housed in the Archive Building in the West Village in Manhattan; after 9/11 Kuhn and the Trust moved to Phoenix, Arizona."
Listen : John Cage - in love with another sounddocumentary film (1992)
director: miroslav sebestik

20 Years of the European Media Art Festival - the forum for Expanded
Media in Europe

The meeting point for audiences and guests from home and abroad.
Around 250 new works of media art, including world premieres, will be
presented. The festival shows film as a contemporary work of art in
cinemas and exhibitions, both performed and using multimedia.

//Exhibition
The exhibition "Final Cut" directs our view to the relationship
between media art and cinema. From 25 April to 20 May an artistic look
at the dream machine "cinema" will be given at the Kunsthalle
Dominikanerkirche. International artists will demonstrate their
fascination with cinema, but will also question the values, codes and
patterns behind the films. Works will be presented by artists such as
Paul McCarthy, Alex McQuilkin, Mischa Kuball, Klaus vom Bruch, Candice
Breitz, Mark Lewis, Christoph Girardet, Bjorn Melhus, Peter
Tscherkassky, Christoph Draeger, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Pierre
Huyghe. There will also be plenty of opportunity to participate in
talks with the artists and attend lectures on the subject.
The exhibition is funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation.

// Anniversary
A review of media art will be given by our special guests, the
director of the ZKM, Peter Weibel, Lynn Hershman, Birgit Hein of the
fur Bildende Kunste Braunschweig and Malcolm LeGrice, who
will be showing their personal selection of films.

// Cinema
Around 180 current experimental shorts, feature-length films and
videos have been selected from a total of roughly 2000 works submitted
from around the world. They range from narrative approaches to
documentary/analytical views of war events and environmental problems.
Visually walking the borderline ...

It's old news (to some), but I finally got around to playing with the Twingly blog visualizer (via 3PointD). For those who can't tell from the picture to the right or from the video at the bottom of this post, Twingly is a downloadable application that displays a rotating 3D globe that includes plotted locations of blog posts as they occur in real-time. Basically, the longer you let it run, the more you'll see where blog activity is occurring around the globe. Statistics for each country are available in the big ring circumnavigating the globe. The application is available for download here and you can even turn it into your screensaver.

Google has something similar to this at their headquarters that plots geographic search volumes on a giant globe, also, although that isn't available for public consumption. Overall, the direct marketing applications of something like this are probably pretty low, but it may provide for interestingly analysis and it's certainly an excellent graphical representation of the blogosphere.

Another great example of this is the 3DLiveStats.com application (the link appears to be down at the moment), which allows you to plot data from any external database on a giant 3D globe.

THE BFA FINE ARTS AND ART HISTORY
DEPARTMENTS AT SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS (SVA)
PRESENT DIGITAL DIVING: A CUT AND PASTE
UPDATE A PANEL DISCUSSION

Tuesday, February 27, 7pm
School of Visual Arts
209 East 23 Street
3rd-floor Amphitheater
Free and open to the public

The BFA Fine Arts and Art History Departments at School of Visual Arts (SVA) present, Digital Diving: A Cut and Paste Update, a discussion of digital culture and its impact on the visual arts and information technologies. Moderated by Suzanne Anker, chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA, the program will explore the uses and abuses of such technologies as they effect knowledge acquisition and its manipulation, new media models of the visual and altered configurations of communities. The panelists are Lauren Cornell, Joseph Nechvatal, Judith Solodkin, Bruce Wands and McKenzie Wark. The event takes place Tuesday, February 27, 7pm at School of Visual Arts, 209 East 23rd Street, New York City. Admission is free.
For more information, call 212.592.2010.
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